Dante Gabriel Rossetti (Данте Габриэль Россетти)

The House of Life. Sonnet 66. The Heart of the Night

From child to youth; from youth to arduous man;
From lethargy to fever of the heart;
From faithful life to dream-dower'd days apart;
From trust to doubt; from doubt to brink of ban;—
Thus much of change in one swift cycle ran
Till now. Alas, the soul!—how soon must she
Accept her primal immortality,—
The flesh resume its dust whence it began?

O Lord of work and peace! O Lord of life!
O Lord, the awful Lord of will! though late,
Even yet renew this soul with duteous breath:
That when the peace is garner'd in from strife,
The work retriev'd, the will regenerate,
This soul may see thy face, O Lord of death!

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3. The House of Life. Sonnet 92. The Sun's Shame - 1
4. The House of Life. Sonnet 93. The Sun's Shame - 2
5. The House of Life. Sonnet 3. Love's Testament

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